Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I went from that to a Gibson EB3 , then to a Rickenbacker 4001 , which I had for a long time . |
| 2 | I had for a long time being trying to find a way of showing the heat-pain argument to be invalid , because I could not accept the conclusion , that heat exists only as a sensation in the mind . |
| 3 | When it was all over I had on a wet blouse , but Shirnette had one on too . |
| 4 | I had on a white guipure lace dress and matching turban with a huge feather on the front . |
| 5 | As I could n't take Lisabeth with me , it was the nearest thing I had to a lethal weapon . |
| 6 | His interest and concern calmed me and sitting in his study at the back of the church I felt more at peace than I had in a long time . |
| 7 | When I moved in to my flat she had to a certain extent taken me over , and treated me like an erring and somewhat unintelligent son who obviously needed the care and attention of a responsible adult . |
| 8 | Valerie Eliot was also his protector — as a secretary she had for a long time been organizing his daily life and guarding him from the world , and it was probably the calm assurance of her presence which first drew him towards her . |
| 9 | She felt more alive than she had for a long time . |
| 10 | She had on a long blue dress . |
| 11 | She had on a superb raspberry pink swagger coat . |
| 12 | She had on a bright green crimplene suit and a dark green hat . |
| 13 | As she prepares for her gold medal exam for speech and drama next month through the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art , she confesses she has cast aside ambitions she had as a ten- year-old to be an actress . |
| 14 | Of course the moth went for the light , Jay went under the pillow , and the moth settled on a huge picture she had of a golden African dawn . |
| 15 | When I talked to my mum , she had about a grand on , on debts . |
| 16 | Now half a crown in those days was a lot of money , you had to a full day 's work for half a crown , make no mistake on that . |
| 17 | There are those who claim to be able to tell you psychically just who you were and what sort of life you had in a previous existence . |
| 18 | I remember particularly well a long discussion we had on a bright sunny day in Austria in 1983 , on the subject of the relative importance of car and driver . |
| 19 | That was the doctoring that we had for a broken collar bone you see ? |
| 20 | When I was in Stanley last year , even though I was only in my second year , I knew as well as all the other Stanley staff that if we had in a dodgy case the S.S.O. would fix things so that someone else operated on him . |
| 21 | On the one hand , it was simply the period required for the sun , moon , and planets to attain the same positions in relation to each other as they had at a given time . |
| 22 | Any hopes they had of a successful Cup run to take the heat off their internal worries disappeared in the mud at Underhill . |
| 23 | Portsmouth could not have had an easier preparation than they had against a flimsy Grimsby side . |
| 24 | I ca n't leave this part of the world without relating a story about another , less grisly trophy , carried home from Sutherland ; and the link it had with a polluted , southern stream , the White Cart , which empties into the Clyde estuary . |
| 25 | Even as he asked the question , Seb realised that it no longer hurt in the way it had for a long time . |
| 26 | He felt happier than he had for a long time . |
| 27 | He had on a three-quarter-length crombie with a velvet collar , a dark-blue suit with the faintest of pin-stripes and a snowy linen shirt . |